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Digital Mental Health Engagement Study for LGBTQ+ Individuals

This study, called the QT-Digital Mental Health Engagement Study, is looking at how different strategies can help people engage more with online mental health resources. Specifically, it's testing "HAPA Engagement Strategies" delivered on the Mental Health America (MHA) website. These strategies aim to improve things like your belief in your ability to take action (self-efficacy) and your understanding of potential benefits (outcome expectancy). You might be able to join if you are 14 years or older, identify as LGBTQ+, and have completed a depression screener (PHQ-9) on the MHA website in English. The study will measure success by seeing if these strategies increase how much you use the MHA website's mental health resources during a single web session. The study is currently unclear on its recruitment status and plans to include 2300 participants.

Study design
This is an interventional study, meaning participants will receive a specific intervention. It aims to enroll 2300 participants.
What's involved
Participants will be delivered HAPA-based engagement strategies directly on the MHA website. This involves interacting with the website during a single web session.
Compensation
Not stated in the trial record.
Follow-up
The study measures engagement during a single web session, capped at 30 minutes of inactivity.

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NCT07278765

QT-Digital Mental Health Engagement Study

Recruiting
NAAges 14+InterventionalHealth services
University of Washington
~2,300 participants
Updated 2026-05-08 on ClinicalTrials.gov
What's tested:HAPA Engagement Strategies

At a glance

Recruiting sites
2 of 2 listed sites are recruiting right now
RecruitingSuspended, closed, or not yet open
What they're measuring
Proximal engagement
Measured over Single web session capped at 30 minutes of inactivity
+1 more outcome measured

Conditions

Engagement, Patient

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Where it's being run

2 sites across 2 states
Virginia1
Washington1

Study leadership

  • Meghan Romanelli, PhD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · University of Washington

Who to contact

Meghan Romanelli, PhD
[email protected]
206-685-6948
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Eligibility criteria

Inclusion

Users of the Mental Health America (MHA) website engaging from Internet Protocol (IP) addresses in the United States
Completed the PHQ-9 depression screener in English
Answered MHA's standard demographic questions that identify users as age 14 and older
Answered MHA's standard demographic questions that identify users as LGBTQ+.

Exclusion

IP addresses outside of the United States
Do not answer MHA's standard demographic questions
Answered MHA's standard demographic questions that identify users as age 13 and younger
Answered MHA's standard demographic questions that identify users as not LGBTQ+.

What this trial measures

  • Proximal engagementSingle web session capped at 30 minutes of inactivity

    Initial engagement (at Decision Point 1, Screening Results page) is a binary indicator of whether a participant clicks to one of the targeted Next Steps Content Pages displayed on the Screening Results Page following randomization (yes/no). If a participant does not navigate to one of the targeted Next Steps pages before leaving the MHA website or before the session ends due to 30 minutes of inactivity then the outcome will be coded as "no."

  • Proximal engagementSingle web session capped at 30 minutes of inactivity

    Sustained engagement (Decision Point 2, Next Steps Content Pages) is a binary indicator of whether a participant clicks to any additional page on the MHA website following randomization (yes/no). If a participant does not navigate to another page before leaving the MHA website or before the session ends due to 30 minutes of inactivity then the outcome will be coded as "no."